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Typewritten student paper prepared for the Brigham Young University Honors Program. Contains a study of the Deseret Alphabet, its origin, problems, use and failure in Utah society during 1850-1877.

Scope and Contents Contains materials pertaining to the linguistic work of Royal Skousen, professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. In particular are Skousen's complete collation files on the Book of Mormon text, title page through Moroni 10, in main bulk and original drafts. This includes symbol keys and stemma, progressive editions of each passage's collation, overhead sheets, articles, cue sheets, library research notes, and directory and file printouts. Also includes research, writing, and...

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Contains materials accumulated while Skousen was doing linguistic research as a consultant for Houghton Mifflin, Weidner Communications, Satellite Software International, and ITT, on topics such as English spelling and spelling reform, syllabification, verb types, and English phonemes. Materials dated 1978-1986.

Scope and Contents Contains of linguistic theory notebooks leading up to the publication of "Analogical Descriptions of Language" (early version)/"Analogical Modeling of Language" and "Analogy and Structure"; other publications and creative works (separated into presentations, articles, reviews and online publications, research proposals, and humor/poetry/miscellanea); general career correspondence; teaching and research files (separated into sponsoring/employing universities with corresponding...

Scope and Contents Contains research files (with correspondence, articles and presentations, and course materials) on Finnish morphology and general language research, English spelling and spelling research, spelling bees and reform, statistics and probability, Skousen's theory of Analogical Modeling (courses and research group, colleagues' research, talks and conferences, and general/miscellaneous material), computer programming, quantum computing and Quantum Analogical Modeling, and syntax. Materials dated...

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Contains writing and publication materials for Volume 3, Part 6 of Skousen's Book of Mormon Critical Text Project series, including introductory material, formatting details, chapter and topical section files (graphemes, capitalization, spacing, hypens, punctuation, etc.), background information on Book of Mormon scribes, analysis of misspellings, PDFs, index cards, reviews, final versions, uncut signatures, etc. Materials dated 2006-2020.

Scope and Contents Contains materials pertaining to the linguistic work as well as personal papers of Royal Skousen, a professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Contains film reels of early word list and spelling research; ADL/AML and A and S manuscript files (mainly on floppy disks and VHS tapes); other career work of Royal Skousen involving languages, spelling, research, as well as personal and family files (including games), blank disks, and miscellaneous material (all on floppy disks); Book of...

Scope and Contents Contains materials pertaining to Royal Skousen, a professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Contains Skousen's early and primary non-Book of Mormon linguistic works, including film reels of word and spelling lists, numerous 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks of files on Analogical Modeling [formerly "Descriptions"] of Language, Analogy and Structure, comparative linguistics, spelling, assorted linguistic research and colleague works, programming files, personal and...

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Contains primarily (by bulk) examples of spelling errors (including some original documents and some photocopies, sometimes both) demonstrated by Skousen's children and wife, himself, his students or colleagues, and his neighbors/friends/ward members. It also contains oversize proofs from the O and P manuscripts (Critical Text Project), including introductory material and photo plate drafts. Materials dated 1962-2014.

Scope and Contents Contains career advancement and academic department files, course material files, and student mentoring files accumulated before and while Skousen was employed as an associate/assistant/full professor of English and linguistics at Brigham Young University (1979-present). This includes employment contracts and promotions, memos, committee materials, awards, departmental changes and correspondence, leave arrangements, scholar visits, copyright issues, new technology, annotated periodicals,...